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Posts Tagged ‘Arriva NW&W’
 January 2nd, 2012  buses7675
2011 was quite an important year for bus services on Merseyside, with many new deliveries to various operators, many withdrawals of older buses, the departure of one of the local operators and as already noted the many many rent-a-buses and demonstrators used. I shall try to summarise the major events of 2011 below! The first Continue reading →
December 30th, 2011 buses7675
This is the first blog update for a while, but don’t worry all is well I’ve just been busy lately but as the final blog update of the year a little review of 2011 seemed quite apt! This year has certainly been a year with lots and lots of loan buses used on Merseyside, some Continue reading →
 Posted in DartSLF News  Tags: A2B Travel, Alexander Dennis, Arriva NW&W, Dawsons Rentals, Demonstrators, Eazibus, HTL Buses, Loan Buses, Optare, Peoplesbus, Rental Buses, Wrightbus  1 Comment »
October 27th, 2011 buses7675
Since the last blog update there have been yet more contract changes resulting in further buses being hired in with some operators, due to the unexpected decision by Supertravel/Homes Hames Travel to end all of its stage services with immediate effect from 13/10/2011. Emergency contracts were let to various operators for the services previously operated Continue reading →
Posted in DartSLF News Tags: A2B Travel, ACE Travel, Arriva North West & Wales, Arriva NW&W, Avon Buses, Cumfybus, Eazibus, Hattons Travel, Home James Travel, HTL Buses, Merseytravel, Peoplesbus, Supertravel, TransDev Lancashire United, Warrington Coachways 2 Comments »
October 14th, 2011 H101GEV
As a slight change to the normal this week we have a guest blogger, forum member H101GEV, who has kindly written and taken photographs for this weeks blog about Speke’s new Geminis! A bit thank you to H101GEV for offering to do this, my usual blog post will return next week! – buses7675 Eight of Continue reading →
October 9th, 2011 buses7675
More Merseytravel route contracts have changed between operators today, amongst the changes inthe Liverpool area being Sunday AM route 161 (Liverpool – Rainhill) moving to ACE Travel from Halton Transport, Sunday 168 (Aigburth – Bootle) moving to ACE Travel from Arriva (Peoplesbus still operate alternate Sunday diagrams as before) and routes 173/4 (Belle Vale – Continue reading →
September 23rd, 2011 buses7675
Stagecoach Merseyside currently have a CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) powered MAN EcoCity demonstrator on loan, which has seen use on route 10A (Liverpool City Centre – St Helens). This bus is B39F with a low floor gangway right to the back of the bus with the very rear row and seats over the wheelarches each Continue reading →
Posted in DartSLF News Tags: Alexander ALX400, Arriva North West & Wales, Arriva NW&W, Arriva Speke, CNG, Dennis Trident 2, MAN, MAN EcoCity, Mercedes Citaro O.530G, Optare Solo, Peoplesbus, Stagecoach Merseyside, VDL DB3000, Wright Gemini 2DL No Comments »
September 9th, 2011 buses7675
Arriva NW&W is continuing to purchase more VDL SB200/Wright Pulsar 2s, the latest entering service over the last few days at Green Lane depot. 17 are reportedly due for route 15, numbers 3062-78, while Southport depot is expected to gain 12, numbers 3079-91 for route 49. Others may be due for other depots however nothing Continue reading →
August 2nd, 2011 buses7675
I was up in St Helens again today and managed to complete riding and photographing the four Darts that are on loan to Arriva St Helens depot from Dawson’s Rentals to cover for their own buses that are away “on holiday” in Malta! I had previously photographed 7903 KU52 RXV Dennis Dart SLF 10.7M/Alexander Pointer Continue reading →
July 27th, 2011 buses7675
Over the weekend the Arriva depot in Skelmersdale finally closed with all services and buses reallocated to other Arriva depots, including those at Southport, Bootle and St Helens. Many buses had their legal lettering changed to Arriva Merseyside in advance of the closure as seen here on 4073 S243 JUA DAF DB250/Alexander ALX400, seen in Continue reading →
July 20th, 2011 buses7675
Futher to previous reports I have been able to take photographs of more of the buses on loan to Arriva from Dawsons Rentals. The most recent arrival is 7907 KV03 ZFJ an early TransBus Enviro300 which is at Green Lane depot. This features the original back and front panels (slightly different to the later ones, Continue reading →
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